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heavyweights

heavyweights is the plural of heavyweight.

Meaning of heavyweight

Noun

heavyweight (plural heavyweights)

  1. A very large, heavy, or impressive person.
    • an intellectual heavyweight
  2. (uncountable) The professional boxing weight class for boxers weighing more than 190 pounds; a boxer in that division.
    • So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12...2024 May 24, Timothy Garton Ash, “Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2024
  3. (broadly, uncountable) A similar division and contestant in other sports.

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What is heavyweights the plural of?
Heavyweights is the plural of heavyweight.

Words near heavyweights in the dictionary

  1. heavys
  2. heavyset
  3. heavywater
  4. heavyweight
  5. heavyweight spaceship
  6. heavyweights
  7. Heawood
  8. Heawood conjecture
  9. Heawood graph
  10. Heawood graphs
  11. Heawoods

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